Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. "Mrs. Nelson thinks her husband may be having an illicit affair- a run-of-the-mill situation as far as John Marshall Tanner, one-time lawyer turned investigator, is concerned. Except that the beautiful Mrs. Nelson doesn't want her husband's infidelity documented. The facts must be covered up to protect him from scandal and blackmail. With the first sentences of the book, you will know you are in the hands of a great Chandler fan and detective story craftsman." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt Rine hart winston, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 278 pages, very clean and tight copy.The Great Fire was the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction. More than twenty years after the classic The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard returns to fiction with a novel that in the words of Ann Patchett "is brilliant and dazzling..."The Great Fire is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate aftermath of the great conflagration of the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the center of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in green, 254 pages. Light shelf wear, clean copy. Another Tommy Hambledon thriller, this time the British agent is in Berlin investigating a professor who's developed a new exposive.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran Company, 1st US, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 319 pages, with 10 b&w illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Dust jacket edge wear and small tears along top edge, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #918.Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 1st published in the UK in 1969.

Hardcover. NY, Arden Book Co., ist thus, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 276 pages, all edges green. Notable for the great b&w illustrations by Keith Henderson, some double-page. No date give. Dust jacket with some short tape repairs on the verso, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, full blue cloth, silver titling, map endsheets. Local color novel about life in the Mississippi River Delta of Louisiana, by an author living in that area. Clean. No dust jacket.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #111. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Creasing to covers and spine. Map on rear cover. Small ink notation on first page. Cover art by Gerald Gregg.

New York, Knopf, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 174 pages. Black & white chapter illustrations by Emil Antonucci. Mild fading to spine of jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 266 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Brick boards with light wear to edges, small spot of soil to rear endpaper. Ligth fraying to crown & heel of spine. Clean tight copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Chuck Pyle. Con man Joe Marlin was used to scoring easy cash off beautiful women. But that was before he met Mona Brassard and found himself facing the most dangerous con of his career, one that will leave him either a killer -- or a corpse.Lawrence Block has won more awards for mystery writing than almost any other living author: 4 Edgar Awards, 4 Shamus Awards, 2 Maltese Falcon Awards, the Nero Wolfe Award, and more. Like new.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2nd printing, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 269 pages. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Woodstock, VT, Countryman Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY JACKSON ON HALF-TITLE PAGE. Black boards with cloth spine, color illustrated dust jacket. Slight rubbing to dust jacket, spine stiff and tight, crisp pages; a very clean, tight copy in great condition. Grootka, retired from the Detroit Police Department, returns as a mentor to Fang Mulheisen, and the two lives become dangerously entwined in a thirty-year-old unsolved case of rape and murder.

Hardcover. Gretna LA, Pelican Publishing Co., 2nd.pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Set in South Carolina, this novel explores class distinctions in a black community.

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, reprint, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 439 pages. Mustard cloth with gilt and black decoration. Hinges cracked, spine cocked, shelfworn. Illustrated with a b&w frontispiece, text sketches throughout, no artist credit. Howard presents the story of a young girl living in the village of Plouvenec who works packing sardines. She falls in love with an artist while supplementing her income by modeling for artists in an artist colony.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with light soil. 253 pages. INSCRIBED BY CONRAD on the front fly leaf (to publisher Paul Erikkson and his wife). Hailed as a classic when it was first published in 1954, this is the story of 5 days on a sodden old menhadener with a white captain and an all black crew, searching the sea for their livelihood and battling the sea for their lives. Musty odor.

Hardcover. London/New York, J.M. Dent/E.P. Dutton, 1st Revised Ed., 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 291 pages, 12 color plates plus b&w drawings by Arthur Rackham. Red cloth covers with ornate gilt decoration to front and spine. A revision of Rackham's 1899 Ed. New color plates. Excellent condition. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Theophilus Barrios, 1821, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, leather binding with gilt border design and gilt initials "PPP" on upper and rear cover. All edges gilt. Volume published in London and sold in Paris. 460 pages plus a 4 page catalog of English books to be had at the Paris store. Includes a brief life of the author. Solid binding, text pages with some waviness, ink name on title page and dated 1829. Otherwise clean. Edgewear to cover edges, corners.

Hardcover. NY, Coward McCann & Geoghegan, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY PRONZINI on the title page. Discussion of the really bad English and American crime novels of 20th century. Introduction by Ed McBain. Index, bibliography. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Joe DeVito. Life isn't always cheap south of the border--some lives are worth a million dollars. That's what the Mexican kidnapping cartel was demanding for Carl Ledbetter's wife. So Carl reached out to the one person he knew with a chance in hell of saving her, a deadly man whose own life he'd saved in the sands of Iraq. It was time to call in some favors. Because some situations call for negotiation, but some...call for gun work. Like new.

Hardcover. New York , Harcourt Brace, 2nd pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY LETHEM on title page. Note signed by him laid in.

Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Three mystery novels in one volume. Detective Book Club Series. Clean, bright copy. No markings.